The Cleveland Cavaliers set NBA Finals records for most points in a single quarter and most points in a single half when they put up 49 on the Golden State Warriors in the first quarter of Game 4 and tallied 86 in the first half.

Stephen Curry said, "We always say 'we just want 16 wins it doesn't matter how we get there.' But now that we're in this situation, why not take care of business and finish the job". "There's no tomorrow. So we just have to play", Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue said. "It's carried me all the way to this point now, and it's going to carry me for the re...

The Lions face the Maori on June 17, a clash in which Gatland has already admitted he could well field a starting line-up that would closely resemble his Test XV. Asked if he learned anything new from the Lions' performance, Robertson said: "No". But the win is certainly a step in the right direction, and given that the Crusaders have beaten ev...

The Scots host England in Glasgow on Saturday, live on Sky Sports 1 , looking for a result that will keep their qualification hopes for the World Cup in Russian Federation in 2018 alive. If I score maybe a hat-trick at the weekend and a couple in the next game (against France on Tuesday), the ratio might not look so bad. "But each game is di...

In this photo provided by America's Cup Event Authority, Sweden's Artemis Racing and Emirates Team New Zealand compete during America's Cup challenger semifinals on the Great Sound in Bermuda on Saturday, June 10, 2017. But after making a crucial error in the first race and allowing New Zealand to get past them, Artemis Racing sailed a near ideal...

The former Celtic defender had been strongly linked with a move to Liverpool , a path well trodden in recent years from St Mary's, but the Merseysiders have now ended their interest in any deal. The Saints are reportedly not going to let him go on the cheap, as Manchester City and Chelsea are interested despite the £50 million price tag va...

Russian presidential aide, Yuri Ushakov has said earlier this week that, unlike the US, Russia had not yet announced any mediation attempts between the warring groups. Tillerson praised efforts by Kuwait to mediate the crisis and said Washington would support the emir of Kuwait. They warned, however, that their ability to make longer-term plans was...

James understood the potential of this Golden State goliath with more firepower than perhaps anything the National Basketball Association has seen before. But they also look like they have the stuff to win several more if they can avoid the greed/ego/credit deprivation/injury/plain old crazy-for-the-sake-of-being-crazy landmines along the way.

The lively Cleveland crowd ate this one up, finishing the night chanting, "Cavs in 7, Cavs in 7". But the Warriors have added four-time scoring champion Kevin Durant since last year's Finals meltdown and are not going to let past results shatter their confidence.

No team has erased a 3-0 deficit in any series. The Cavaliers played one of the most spectacular Finals games of all time, winning 137-116, scoring a playoffs record of 86 points in the first half, and hitting a Finals record of 24 3s to extend the season to a Game 5 while the sport's most iconic player threw a dunk to himself off the backboard.

Kyrie Irving was sensational again, hitting seven three-pointers and dumping in a game-high 40 points. Remember, the Warriors - for all their dominance this spring - were down 25 points to San Antonio in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals and came back to win only after Spurs star Kawhi Leonard was knocked out of the series with a spraine...

The world number 47 became the first player to win their maiden trophy at Roland Garros - or indeed any grand slam - since Gustavo Kuerten's triumph on June 8, 1997, the day of Ostapenko's birth. If he wins, Nadal will become only the second player, man or woman, to win 10 titles at the same major tournament. Halep had been installed as the...

It's my goal", said Ostapenko who spends up to six hours a day on court in practice. Her all-out attacking game ultimately got the better of the steady Halep , who lost her second French Open final - she fell to Maria Sharapova , also in three-set thriller, in 2014.

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Wait until they hear what Draymond Green - who drew a loud reaction when he was seemingly ejected (but actually wasn't ) from the Cavaliers' Game 4 victory Friday - said in his latest interview. The Cavaliers' first-half output beat the previous mark of 79 points set in 1985 by the Boston Celtics . And LeBron James throwing one pass t...

Only Michael Schumacher , with 68 poles - and himself a seven-time race victor in Montreal at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve - stands ahead on the all-time list. The five drivers knocked out in Q1 were Stoffel Vandoorne (McLaren), Lance Stroll (Williams), Kevin Magnussen (Haas), and the two Sauber drivers, Marcus Ericsson and Pascal Wehrlein.

Nadal certainly won't be taking Wawrinka lightly Sunday, though: He is a ideal 3-0 in grand slam finals, memorably topping the left-hander to open his account in Melbourne in 2014. The top seed was rock steady with 36 winners and the same number of unforced errors but Wawrinka, the oldest man to make the final in 44 years, employed his big swingin...

Let's hope for a couple more competitive games, we all know what happened past year when the Warriors were up 3-1. "At least if I'm going to get them, let me earn them". The trio of Love, LeBron and Kyrie combined for a franchise record of 94 points by a combined trio - equaling the mark set by Hot Rod Williams, Brad Daugherty and Mark Price - th...

She was the runner-up to Maria Sharapova at Roland Garros in 2014. That theme continued in the opening game and Ostapenko broke to love - the ideal start for the 20-year-old. "I'm really happy. I have no words, it was my dream", Ostapenko said. Ostapenko's success owed much to an ultra-aggressive approach, which saw her rack up 54 winners in...

What do you think? 'I don't believe I did something wrong, too wrong today . "I'm just really, really happy". Halep , pushed onto the defensive by a powerful opponent whose default mode always seems to be all-out attack, then crucially saved another break point and was taken to deuce in each of the next two games before wrapping up an engrossing ...